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$36,624 - $59,180

Country: United States

Currency: USD

Updated: 17 Feb 2019

Individuals Reporting: 16

Job Description for Mental Health Therapist

The descriptor "mental health therapist" includes a variety of professionals that conduct therapy as part of their daily responsibilities, such as clinical psychologists, marriage and family therapists, school therapists, social workers, and general therapists. Therapy includes the use of psychological methods - such as cognitive behavioral therapy and psychoanalysis - to help patients overcome behavioral and psychological obstacles and problems. Techniques used by mental health therapist include cognitive-behavioral therapy, word association, and a wide variety of psychological tests, among many others. A mental health therapist can work in their own practice or for a particular company or organization. As part of a company, the therapist may focus on employees' problems and how they affect productivity and job performance.

Depending on the type of therapy performed, different educational requirements and credentials are necessary. Academic qualifications range from master’s degrees for social workers and marriage and family therapists to doctoral degrees for clinical psychologists. A therapist must be able to listen to an individual, help diagnose or identify issues, and use a variety of techniques to help the patient work through those issues. (Copyright 2019 PayScale.com)

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About St. Louis, Missouri

County, State

St. Louis city, Missouri

Population

315,685

Gender

Male:

153,026 (48.5%)

Female:

162,659 (51.5%)

St. Louis (/seɪnt ˈluːɪs/) is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri, built along the western bank of the Mississippi River, on the border with Illinois. The city has an estimated 2015 population of 315,685, and is the cultural and economic center of the Greater St. Louis area, which is home to 2,916,447 people, and is the largest metropolitan area in Missouri and the 19th-largest in the United States.
Prior to European settlement, the area was a major regional center of Native American Mississippian culture. The city of St. Louis was founded in 1764 by French fur traders Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, and named after Louis IX of France. The area was ceded to Spain following France's defeat in the Seven Years' War (the area east of the Mississippi was ceded to Britain). In 1800, Spanish Louisiana was retroceded back to France. In 1803, the United States acquired...